Ex-Manager Arrested for Holding Female BJ Hostage at Knifepoint

A man in his 20s who held a knife to the neck of a female internet broadcast host in her 20s and engaged in a standoff with responding police before being subdued has been arrested.

The Gyeonggi Ansan Sangnok Police Station announced on the 14th that it has arrested an individual identified as A on charges including special assault, special confinement, and preparation for murder.

A is suspected of holding a knife to the neck of B, an internet broadcast host, inside a restaurant in Sangnok-gu, Ansan, at 5:30 p.m. on the 12th, while confronting responding police officers.

Previously, police received eyewitness reports twice, at 5:21 p.m. and 5:26 p.m., stating that "a man is hitting a woman."

Recognizing during the dispatch process that the incident involved a weapon and hearing a woman's screams, the police issued a "Code Zero" (the highest level of urgency among emergency manuals) and deployed about 30 police officers.

At the same time, they requested the mobilization of a police SWAT team.

When police arrived at the scene at 5:33 p.m., A was standing inside an empty restaurant holding B's neck with one hand and a weapon with the other.

After initiating the standoff, police repeatedly ordered A to drop the weapon, but A refused.

During this process, B suffered abrasions from the weapon held to her neck and burns from hot water that A poured on her legs.

Meanwhile, police succeeded in arresting A 17 minutes later at 5:50 p.m. by moving in under the pretext of handing A a bottle of drinking water.

In addition, other police officers present assisted in the arrest by firing two Taser shots at A.

Although the arrest operation concluded without major casualties, Senior Inspector Park, who engaged in a physical struggle, suffered a 4-centimeter slash on his right palm from A's weapon and received three stitches.

There were no other injuries.

According to investigations so far, A had worked as a chat manager for B's broadcast before quitting recently due to strained relations. As tensions escalated, A went to find B with a prepared weapon and committed the crime.

Police plan to conduct supplementary investigations into the arrested A and consider whether to apply charges of retaliatory crime and attempted murder.

Police explained that although A held B and engaged in a standoff while possessing a weapon, the charge of "hostage-taking" under the Criminal Act could not be applied because A did not make unreasonable demands using B as collateral.

Crimes such as hostage coercion or hostage robbery apply when someone uses a hostage to force another party to perform an act they have no obligation to do or to demand financial gain.

A police official stated, "With the court issuing an arrest warrant, we are able to continue our investigation while he is detained," adding, "Senior Inspector Park, who was in charge of the scene as the duty shift commander acting on behalf of the police station chief over the weekend, led by example and resolved the case."

(Photo: Provided by Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency, Yonhap News)
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